israel are the best right now but it operates within a certain frameworks up by the security council of general assembly resolutions when it comes to syria it supports the government but it has relations with the opposition has a very good relationship with the kurds. in yemen it has relations with the antagonists and tries to talk to them and even within the context of the. problems that you're having today between the between saudi arabia and. egypt and qatar. russia has taken a position that is balanced and tries to help both sides overcome the differences so clearly every country does what it is in its interest but it so happens it's interesting for for it to have enough interim once it has to be equidistant and i think it's it wasn't easy and i really have to. praise russia for being able to handle that over the long term because you can do that in short periods but russia has been able to don't you think that this capacity if it's for development also all kind of chip away from the u.n. all that legitimacy because you can is even make a case that for example be asked in the process and what russia

you represent the united states of the world you speak on behalf of the united states where the un security council are general assembly or the press corps with important policy issues that the whole world is focused on. during my tenure that included sanctions on iran and libya and syria and the palestinian for state recognition and united nations. i could go on but a whole range. but behind the scenes un ambassador is engaged in very difficult sometimes high-stakes negotiations with the other major member states called the permanent five members of the security council to have veto power russia, china, united kingdom and france in addition to the united states. that there are ten other members of the un security council. that is the lawmaking body. many contentious negotiations happened within the security council with those permanent five ambassadors. so i negotiated very strong sanctions with north korea and those imposed on iran in 2010 were so powerful they led ultimately iran to come to the negotiating table and that's how we ended up with the iran nuclear deal. it's very challenging and intense environment but

that germany as a nonpermanent member and the security council of the united nations was also talking great and important point right before general assembly. concerning the economy and the fine and says i would just like to add that lots of things have become a reality now the euro zone projects are also the battery project within the european unit we are going to talk about the. and management hyperscale are there are a lot of franco german and mission that are also going to be welcomed inside of your education and research there is a project that you were proposing to her during a speech and sorbonne the european universities is taking shape slowly as well as the networks of artificial intelligence sides that is being started now with pilot projects and in france and germany are for that and agency for disruptive innovations and working towards that in order to increase their european competitor the team off cause concerning agriculture an important field all cooperation as already very close today we did not talk about traditional agriculture questions rather about sustainable production and animal welfare that the german citizens are

assemble, i will introduce them. lieutenant general christopher cavoli, the deputy director at the atlantic council's center for strategy and security. and lieutenant general commander of land command. and our panel will be led and moderated by patrick tucker, defense one's technology editor. thank you all. [ applause ] >> thank you all so much for joining us today. i'm technology editor at defense one. i'm pleased to have this exceptional panel here to discuss the future of the united states army in the european theater and i've been covering different aspects of army activity in europe for quite some time and it's a question, and i'll go to you, and i wonder if you can talk to me a little bit about the current status and your feelings about the military-to-military relationship with turkey. how is that right now and how quickly is that changing? >> i maintain strong relations with my counterparts in turkey on -- within the parameters of u.s. policy at any given time. we spend time going back and forth and visiting each other. we exchange united states. we had the turkish first command brigade send a company to train with us in germany and reciprocated with the compan

security council to talk about the current situation i think it's worth reminding those diplomats of course the president otoh on made it quite clear what he was going to do he stood in the general assembly of the united nations just 15 days ago and in his speech held up a map of the area along the turkey syria border on the syrian side that turkey intended to take what he said would initially be a peace corridor or with a depth of 30 kilometers and a length of 480 kilometers which would a neighbor will the settlement of 2000000 syrians and then he laid out the fact that they could actually expand that further deeper down into syria to the dead as or rocker line and potentially return from turkey europe and other parts of the world up to 3000000 syrians so the turkish president made it quite clear to everyone what he was planning to do in the general assembly of the united. in front of other world leaders and just before we leave you just for the moment we do have a wire dropping that the french e.u. ministers says that france and britain will call a u.n. security council meeting over turkey's offensive it'll be interesting if that is confirmed by the elysee palace certainly by paris but

general assembly the with announcement of the breakthrough, too soon to tell whether or not it's going to work, but the formation of a constitutional committee under the u.n. security council resolution 2254 talking what the end of the syrian conflict would look like, and it was diplomacy in mediation. if you all the stakeholders in the conflict argument at the table rather than paddling out of the ground i would argue that is a good thing both for syrian civilians, for the region, and for u.s. national security interests. that one-third of syria u.s. control was tremendous leverage, and now we don't have it. we have most likely undermined whatever credibility we had left him the study group count and we travel the region was severely damaged from the to december 20 announcement about the u.s. drawn down its forces. >> first, i'd like to thank the battle for for a very somber bt very accurate assessment. it's going to become even more somber. our strategy calls for global competition with russia and china, and i like how you evaluate as to what we're doing in terms of the global competition in the region. putin seems to be and everywhe. he's in saudi arabia now, while the

the un general assembly there was an announcement of a breakthrough, to tune soon to tell whether it's going to work but the formation of a constitutional committee under the un security council resolution 2254 talking about what the end of the syrian conflict would look like and it was diplomacy and mediation and if you have all the stakeholders in the conflict arguing at the table rather than battling out on the ground i would argue that is a good thing both for syrian civilians for the region and for u.s. national security interests. that 1/3 of syria the u.s. controlled was tremendous leverage and now we don't have it. and we have most likely undermined whatever credibility we had left which the group found as we travel the region was severely damaged from the december 2018 announcement about the u.s. drawing down its forces. >> yes. >> i wanted to thank the panel for very somber and accurate assessment and it's become even more somber. our strategy calls for a global competition with russia and china and i like you to evaluate what we're doing in terms of that global competition in the region. putin seems to be everywhere, he's in saudi arabia now, 400 churches while the